Czech President: “Refugee Quotas’ a ‘Violation of National Sovereignty”

Posted by DanielS on Monday, 19 June 2017 01:06.

“The 600 million crowns earmarked for the resettlement could have been used for many better purposes.” - Milos Zeman

New Observer, “Czech President, ‘Refugee Quotas’ a ‘Violation of National Sovereignty’, 18 June 2017:

The refugee quotas are a violation of the sovereignty of European Union member countries as each country should decide on its own whom to accept, Czech President Milos Zeman has announced.

Zeman said he is not going to yield to the pressure that the EU exerted. “We must beware of this, all disasters begin in an inconspicuous way. Once you bow your heads, you will start bowing to them again and again,” he said.

The EC has opened legal cases against the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland for refusing to take in invaders pretending to be asylum seekers from Italy and Greece within the quota plan.

Zeman said migrants are not interested in staying in the Czech Republic and they are heading for Germany and other West European countries because they can get higher welfare benefits there.

Zeman said 600 million crowns were earmarked for the resettlement. “This money could have been used for many better purposes,” he said.

The Czech Republic pledged to accept 2,600 refugees from the Middle East, but it has resettled only 12 so far.

If the country opened to a higher number of migrants, millions from Africa would start streaming to it.